[PDF.54vd] Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era

Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era

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 | #2093965 in Books |  2010-08-01 |  2010-07-27 | Format: Bargain Price | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.82 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 512 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Perceiving French History (1770-1853) Through the Prism of a Remarkable Woman|By John Mccarthy|This is the story of a uniquely placed woman who lived through a uniquely tempestuous time. Bright, resilient, and courageous, her life spanned the Revolution, and the Restoration. Situated within the aristocracy so that at different times in her life she was directly involved with|From Publishers Weekly|Educated to wait on Marie Antoinette, the marquise Lucie de la Tour du Pin (1770-1853) instead precariously survived a devastating revolution, an emperor, two restorations and a republic. Drawing on Lucie's memoirs and those of her contemp

Her canvases were the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; the Great Terror; America at the time of Washington and Jefferson; Paris under the Directoire and then under Napoleon; Regency London; the battle of Waterloo; and, for the last years of her life, the Italian ducal courts. She witnessed firsthand the demise of the French monarchy, the wave of the Revolution and the Reign of Terror, and the precipitous rise and fall of Napoleon. Lucie Dillon—a daughte...

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